State v. Hess

KONENKAMP, Justice.

[¶ 1.] In this case, we must decide whether a warrantless police entry and search of a home, mistakenly thought to be the home of an arrestee for whom the officers had a warrant, constituted a Fourth Amendment violation. After looking in the window of a home where the police were to arrest a person on a felony warrant, which was actually the home next door, the officers observed the defendant and another man using a controlled substance. Believing that exigent circum*317stances existed and that this was the home of the person they were to arrest, the officers enteréd, arrested…